Sean Michael Kerner

The popular Dropbox cloud file storage service is denying allegations that it was hacked, as an anonymous source leaked information Dropbox account holders. The anonymous allegation against Dropbox was publicly posted on Pastebin and claims that 6,937,081 Dropbox accounts were hacked, though initially only 400 Dropbox accounts were publicly posted. The anonymous Pastebin poster has […]

The Linux Foundation is taking its efforts to foster new levels of open-source collaboration to new heights today with launch of the Dronecode Project. Dronecode is an effort to help build an open platform for software that enables nonmilitary unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones. The Dronecode Project is now part of the […]

CAINE Linux Distribution Helps Investigators With Forensic Analysis by Sean Michael Kerner CAINE Can Be Used as a Live System For cases where an operating system cannot be installed onto a machine, CAINE can be run as a live system directly for a CD or USB device. The MATE Linux Desktop Is the Default CAINE […]

The attack and picture leak known as the “Snappening against Snapchat users now has a confirmed root cause, with Snapsaved.com admitting a data breach. The Snapchat picture leak has led to the unintended disclosure of Snapchat user images. Reports of the Snapchat Snappening first emerged Friday, with Snapchat itself claiming that it had not been […]

When the open-source OpenStack Icehouse platform was released in April, the Trove database-as-a-service project was one of its key new features. Fast forward six months, and the OpenStack Juno release is set to debut on Oct. 16, complete with a long list of updates and improvements to Trove. The Trove project first began in 2012 […]

National retailer Kmart, a subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corp., publicly confirmed on Oct. 10 that it had been breached by a form of point-of-sale (POS) malware. While Kmart is reporting the breach today, the company claimed that it only detected the breach yesterday, on Oct. 9. With barely a day of investigation, Kmart has already […]

Thousands of Snapchat images that users thought were erased have now been publicly posted in an attack that is being publicly referred to as the “Snappening.” Snapchat is a popular temporary photo-sharing app for mobile devices that offers users the promise of ephemeral image sharing of pictures that aren’t supposed to be stored. Yet, apparently, […]

Apart from some minor OS-specific differences, Skype users will be hard-pressed to tell the new Mac and Windows versions of the software apart, according to Microsoft. The software maker’s newly released Skype 7.0 for Mac and Skype for Windows Preview provide a more unified experience. In short, there’s less of a learning curve as Skype […]

After a month of speculation and investigation, restaurant chain International Dairy Queen officially confirmed on Oct. 9 that its stores had been the victim of a data breach. International Dairy Queen has both the Dairy Queen ice cream chain and Orange Julius beverage locations as part of its organization, and both types of restaurants were […]

A new form of malware dubbed “Tyupkin’ has been infecting automated teller machines (ATMs) in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The attack, which was first reported by security firm Kaspersky Lab, requires physical access to an ATM for the malware to be loaded. The idea that malware can be loaded onto a vulnerable ATM is […]

Greg Hoglund is no stranger to the world of security startups. Hoglund was previously a co-founder at Cenzic (which Trustwave acquired) and at HBGary (which ManTech Cyber Solutions acquired), and is now the CEO of a startup called Outlier, which launched a new-product offering on Oct. 7. At Outlier, Hoglund has developed an endpoint security […]

FireEye has found more than its fair share of zero-day vulnerabilities on Microsoft Windows platforms in recent years. Now, the security specialist is adding Apple’s desktop operating system to its purview, in a bid to find bugs in OS X. The timing couldn’t be better. As Apple’s operating system adoption continues to grow, attackers are […]